VERIZON BUYS YAHOO: What you need to know on Wall Street right now

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer

Verizon has bought Yahoo for $4.83 billion.

Here are the headlines:

• Yahoo's most critical investor says he's 'subdued' by the deal.
• There is some confusion over whether Marissa Mayer is staying at Yahoo.
• Mayer refuses to say the Verizon sale was 'at all' a failure.
• Her golden parachute will be worth $54.9 million if she gets fired.
• This woman has been given the job of merging Yahoo with AOL.
• Former Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn says he'd be 'excited' if he were a Yahoo employee right now.
• AOL's Tim Armstrong used a word that should have Yahoo employees shaking in their boots.
• WALL STREET PAYDAY: A handful of tiny firms will make a killing from the Verizon-Yahoo deal.
• Yahoo is the latest piece of Verizon's $10 billion plan to challenge Facebook and Google.

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